Fourth Grade Sings About Florida History

Watch Mrs. Bauer’s class sing a song about Florida’s early pioneers. We used this song not only to talk about Florida history, but also to learn a cross-over bordun (bordun means a chord pattern) on the xylophones. You will notice that their left hand has to cross over the right to execute the pattern. Click…

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First Grade Learns a Turkey Dance

Students from Mrs. Siler’s and Hill’s class pose with Bert the turkey. Ask them and they can show you the song A Turkey Named Bert – complete with dance moves! Also, we listened to rhythms Bert said, and translated them into rhythm syllables (DU for quarter note and DU-DAY for paired eighths). What does that…

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First Grade Learns Dynamics

We’ve been doing songs with contrast in them to learn the words TEMPO and DYNAMICS. Here are some students from Mrs. Smith’s class, creating some crackling fire sounds to the song “Jeremiah Blow the Fire.” We watched a conductor and played either a loud or quiet dynamic…

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Orchestra Field Trip – Oct 11

The third, fourth and fifth grade classes will be going on a field trip to the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center on Oct. 11th to see the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. This concert if FREE – thanks to generous donations from United Arts, Disney, Publix and a number of other donors. Make sure to fill out…

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Welcome to a New Year!

Hello students, teachers and parents! I hope you will check this site often to see what fun things we are doing in music class! I use this site to post important info, as well as videos and pictures of what is happening in class. Make sure that you have filled out the Model Release form…

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